CVE-2015-8762

Exploitation

Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.

SSVC decision

Not assessed by CISA

EPSS probability

1.61% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.

EPSS percentile

Ranks above 74.2% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.

NVD base score

5.9 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.

NVD CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

NVD analysis status

Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.

Red Hat severity

Moderate. Red Hat's rating for its own products, not a CVSS rating.

Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.

Published

2017-03-27 17:00Z9 YR AGO

Last updated

2024-08-06 08:29Z2 YR AGO

Reserved

2016-01-08

Assigning CNA

mitre

Record state

PUBLISHED

Severity

Not rated by the issuing CNA

CNA CVSS vector

Not published by the issuing CNA

Weaknesses

• CWE-476NULL Pointer DereferenceBase
• CWE-20Improper Input ValidationClass

Data version

5.1

Document digest

4dd95fac6203688c505906ca528aeb3311ee3360f7ccd7c39008a4efcd387a8d

• freeradius.orghttp://freeradius.org/security.html#eap-pwd-2015x_refsource_CONFIRM
• www.openwall.com[oss-security] 20160108 Re: CVE Request: freeradius: the EAP-PWD module performs insufficient validation on packets received from an EAP peerhttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/08/7mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST